Defense attorney Stephen Pokart hinted to the judge that the push was somehow justified, that the victim was the aggressor pursuing the defendant along the subway platform, refusing to leave him alone.

In the wake of the second recent incident in which someone shoved a fellow passenger off a subway platform and left him to be killed by a train, New York City transit officials said they might give more thought to install sliding doors on some platforms.

Many readers reacted with outrage Tuesday at the front cover photo on the New York Post, which shows subway murder victim Ki-Suk Han hanging from the platform just before he was struck and killed by a train.